Pong

Over the next week we will be adding a two remake games a day. And I could not think of a better game to start with than pong as it is classically seen as the first ever computer powered game. The fact is however that pong was not the first game, that title goes to Steve Russell’s Space War and to break from the belief that pong was the first game even further I will introduce this fact: PONG was not even the first ball and paddle game. The first was Magnavox Tennis, Magnavox took Atari to court to demand royalties on their ball and paddle game patent. Atari was fined $700,000, but from that point on could legally sell their PONG machines.

It is strange to think that people used to queue for ages to get a turn.

It was also incredibly difficult to rate this game. Should I rate it by todays standards (20%) or those days standards (100%). I decided to come to some middle ground and rate the great PONG 60 %

Okay, this may be an old game. But it's @#$%ing pong, HOW COOL IS THAT?!